steelhands wrote:
How well does any of those services work if you are moving very often and not sure where you'll be in two weeks. Can these services hold your mail for several weeks while you figure out where you'll be? Likewise, will a post office in the little town I may be head to, hold mail for weeks at at time? Unfortunately, we are adrift in junk mail that we don't want.
We will HAVE to decide on this in the next week or so as move out is May 29th.
We never get any third class mail - it is all shredded by our mail service (Escapees) so we never see it. Yes, we pay a little extra more, but we don't pay to have it shipped to us, plus it just makes everything easier for us.
We normally request mail about every 3 weeks - most everything is done online. Often we request mail when we know that our medication refills have been received in Livingston. Part of our mail service is I get an email telling me whenever they receive a package for us - in this case our medications. Then I request that the mail be sent, by Priority Mail, to General Delivery at whatever small town is near us for the coming week. I get an email with the tracking number for the package and track the package as it moves across the country. 2-3 days later, when I check it will show the package at the PO. I make sure I have the tracking number on my iPhone and go into the PO. A couple of time they will say, no we don't have anything for you, I pull up the tracking number, click on it, and it shows it delivered at the PO - - sure enough there it is, and after a red faced "ah, ah", I'm on my way. They are suppose to hold General Delivery mail for 30 days, but I wouldn't depend upon that. We just make sure we are going to be in one place for a week and have it sent. Haven't had any problems in 9 years of fulltiming.
Barb